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Motmen Test Powerful Lehigh
In Two Meets at Bethlehem
Two Penn State wrestling
teams left State College yesterday
noon for a jaunt to Bethlehem to
test Lehiiglh University’s varsity
and jayvee squads. Both the var
sity and Lion cubs tangle with the
Engineers this afternoon.
Coadh Charlie SPeidel took two
complete teams with him, and was
still undecided about his starting
lineups when the squads left yes
terday.
The Lions will be matching
strength with powerful competi
tion in this afternoon’s bouts. The
Lehigh team, aptly described by
its coach, Billy Sheridan, as the
greatest team he’ s ever had, was
the Eastern Intercollegiate team
ahampion last year, and has won
three straight matches this year,
all by convincing scores.
Two EIWA titlists are present
on the Engineer varsity. Pilgrim
Mcßaven and Ed Ericson, 121 and
165-pound kings respectively, will
be fighting at their championship
weights.
LINE-UP CHANGES
While Speidel declined to name
a probable lineup for the varsity
meet, there will likely be some
changes in the starting combina
tion as a result of eliminations
this week.
Georgie Schautz is the likely
starter at 121-pounds, while A 1
Vigilante may move up a weight
bracket and replace Harry Smith
in the 128-pound class. Don Ar
buckle, 136-pounder, 145-pound
Jim Mauxey, and Laird Roibertson,
1'56-pounder, will start, but the
upper weight classes are still a
toss-up.
Bari. Long and Grant Dixo n are
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potential candidates for the 165-
pound berth, while either Spider
Corman or Warren Conrad will
represent the Lions at 1'75-pounds.
In the unlimited class, Joe Clark
and neophyte Bill Kyle are vying
for top honors.
JAYVEES
The probable jayvee lineup will
see newcomer Moeury at 121-
pounds; Harry Smith, 128-pounds;
Leo Noker, 136-pounds; Mickey
Silverman, 145-pounds; and Cec
Irvin, 155-pounds. The heavier
weights are still in doubt.
Besides Mcßave n and Ed Erick
son, the Lehigh varsity squad will
include Herman Bastanelli at 128-
pounds; Dick Kelsey, 136; Andy
M'athes, 145; Eric Erickson, 155;
Captain Jim Jackson, 175; and
Dick Berndt in the unlimited
class.
Theta Chi Wins Isl Half
IF Bowling League Title
The Theta Chi bowlers were de
clared first half champions of the
IFC league, according to final
standings released by league chair
man Lee McQuistion.
Following closely behind was
Delta Sigma Phi, with Alpha Chi
Sigma in third place.
The second half of the schedule
will begin February 16, with
matches being held at the Dux
Club alleys, as usual.
FIRST HALF FINAL STANDINGS
Theta Chi 64 21 .725
Delta Sigma Phi 51 21 .708
Alpha Chi Sigma 59 29 .670
Delta Upsilon 50 38 .568
Delta Tau Delta 48 40 .544
Lambda Chi Alpha 46 42 .522
Delta Chi 46 42 .522
Tau Kappa Epsilon 40 48 .454
Alpha Gamma Rho 37 51 425
Kappa Delta Rho 34 54 .366
Chi Phi 28 60 .318
Bela Theta Pi 25 63 .284
Lawthermen Tangle with Depauw
When the Penn State basketball team tangles with the Depauw Tigers in Rec Hall at
8:30 o’clock tonight, six Lawther-coached players will appear on the floor. Five will wear
the Blue and White of the College, but the sixth, Dick Light, will be wearing, the Gold and
Black of the rival team.
Dick, a senior at the Indiana college, played for Coach Lawther during the war. After
playing a season here the 5’ 10" guard matriculated at Depauw and is now playing on the
varsity for his second year.
Heading the visitors’ aggregation is Earl “Red” Gardner, an all-state center and a mem
ber of the Tiger team that captured the conference championship last year. Red, a 6' 3" for
ward, is third tallest man on the team.
In the starting roll call, Joe Boyd, 6' 4" center, takes height honors, but sophomore John
Heise holds the squad record with a 6' 5" mark.
Another six-footer, Tom Beck, is slated to start for the visitors. Beck, a sophomore, made
the varsity in his freshman year. A forward, he is noted for his unorthodox manner of get-
DICK LIGHT
Gymnasts Seek
Second Victory
Over Orangemen
Penn State’s gym team, defend
ing Eastern champion, is favored
to top Syracuse in a meet slated
for 2 o’clock this afternoon in
Rec Hall.
The Nittany gymnasts will
seek their second win of the cam
paign and a repeat of last year’s
66-30 victory over the Orange
men. Coach Gene Wettstone’s
crew registered a 71Vfc-40Vfe tri
umph over Minnesota in this
year’s first meet.
Competing in their second year
in gymnastics, the invaders from
New York have performed cred
itably while defeating McGill
University of Canada, 64-32, and
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succumbing to Army, 58V£-
37*/2.
Main hope of the visitors,
coached by Paul Romeo, will
probably be Jack Bean, whose
specialties are parallel bars and
tumbling.
Penn State will line up as fol
lows:
Side horse—Jim Clark, Soren
sen and Greene: horizontal bar—
Mike Kurowski, Sorensen and
Bonsall; rope climb—Don Stog
oski, Norwood Lawfer and Joe
Linn; parallel bars—Meade, Sor
ensen and Green; rings—Bill
Morris, Dick Klotz and Bonsall;
tumbling—Byron Emery or Pete
Howachyn, Bonsall and Meade.
Tentative lineup, as released by
Coach Romeo, follows:
Side horse—J. Spitalieri, G.
Cunningham; horizontal bar—K.
Meister, W. Covey and J. Cum
mings; rope climb—S. Schuchter,
R. Wright and R. Bean; parallel!
burs—W. Covey, J. Spitalierli, J.
Bean; rings J. Cummings, R
Bean; tumbling—J. Spitalieri, J.
Bean. i
ting shots and is listed as one of
the most valuable members of the
team.
An impressive record of 11 wins
against three losses has again
placed the Tigers at the top of the
Indiana conference. Three of the
11 wins have seen Depauw scoring
more than 70 points, while the fi
nal win was a wide open 83-58 de
cision over Concordia of St. Louis.
Only one foe of Coach Hal Hick
man’s cagers is connected even
indirectly with Penn State’s op
position. The Depauw team lost to
Indiana U. 43-59 and Indiana U.
defeated Loyola of Chicago which
in turn swamped-Syracuse.
Coach Lawther will stick to the
combination that won the last two
contests, when he sends in his
starting line-up.
Biery f Beck
Simon f Gardner
Ruhlman c Boyd
Kulp g Mote
McKown g Light
GymnasticCoachWettstone
Explains Judging System
To the average sports follower, the recent gym meet between
Penn State and Minnesota was an enlightening experience. To nu
merous fans who never before witnessed a gymnastics event, it had
the earmarks of genuine curiosity tinged with mystery.
The mystery surrounded three gentlemen who were tabbed by
the announcer as “judges.” How did they judge? What criteria did
they use in ranking one performer above another on the parallel bars,
in tumbling, in other events?
As an average fan, we put
these posers to cne who should
know the answers. He’s Gene
Wettstone, the affable coach who
is nationally known among tu
tors of the gymnastic trade. The
fact that he’s secretary of the
United States Olympic Gymnas
tic Committee and that he is
playing host to the 1948 Final
Olympic Tryouts and National
AAU Championships in May is
proof of his prestige in his field.
What follows is the essence of
his remarks:
Each gymnast in each event is
judged on a basis of 100 points,
60 of which are theoretically
concerned with the relative diffi
culty of sequence of movements
in the exercise. In other words,
the performer can earn up to 60
points on such items as grip
changes, strength, mastery,
originality, variety, shifting of
position and changes from one
position to another without un
necessary intermediate changes—
all this, and more, comes under
difficulty of sequence of move
ments.
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The remaining 40 points theor
etically center around execution
and form —a . smooth, graceful,
rhythmic manner without un
necessary pauses, with knees
straight, legs together, toes point
ed, head erect, arms straight.
Now that we’ve set down these
cold fundamentals, it may seem
disillusioning to say they are
useless, for judges do not use the
6U-40 criterion.
Actually, to any observer, and
thus to the three men who judge
the meet, form and difficulty of
sequence are so closely inter
woven that they are seen as a
single unit.
Since judges are as human as
spectators, they evaluate each
performance as spectators do—
on the total impression of the
performance. That’s why the aim
of every competitor is to convey
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through his movements a com
plete, artistic impression.
It follows that scoring a per
formance is largely subjective.
Judges may be biased toward cer
tain pet movements and score
them higher than others. Unlike
judging the rope climb, which
has an objective, unbiased mea
sure—the stop watch, evaluating
other gym events depends en
tirely on the judge’s opinion and
his ability to remember how well
each competitor performed.
He compares the second man
with the first and scores them
accordingly, then compares the
third with the first two and so
on. Consequently, gym coaches
place their best man last in a
particular event so the judge,
who is only human and can re
member recent performers better
than previous ones, will witness
an increasing caliber of action
to compare with that of the op
ponents. That’s psychology!
Scores of the three judges are
added to arrive at a total, a per
fect performance totaling 300.
Thus, in each event, six compet
itors, three home-team and three
opposing, are rated in order of
excellence. Best performance
"ains six team points, next wins
four, next three, next two, and
finally one. The sixth man, whose
total is lowest, earns no point.
Gymnastic judges are well paid
and well selected; their decisions
are never questioned by coaches.
But—and this is the meat of the
thing—they see the gym perform
ance, not as a mathematical sum
mation of various factors of form,
difficulty, etc., but as one total
impression.
Since that’s the way Joe Aver
age Fan sees it too, we’ll call
him a capable judge of gymnas
tics in his own right, just as are
the three men who make the of
ficial decisions today when Penn
State and Syracuse square off in
Rec Hall.
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